Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] because it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1960 the Rat Pack — Sinatra , Lawford , Martin , Davis and Bishop — came together to make Ocean 's Eleven , a caper that became a classic only because it featured for the first time the nucleus of the clan . |
| 2 | Do n't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain . |
| 3 | This is interesting both because it suggests that non-Hebbian forms of potentiation occur in the hippocampus , and because it provides implicit evidence for the existence of a diffusible extracellular messenger ( see text ) . |
| 4 | Okay , now , one of the things , I was gon na say this later but I 'm gon na say this now because it fits in here quite nicely , although as you 'll see I 'll revert to this later , but while we 're doing sex theory I 'll mention it . |
| 5 | I mention this here because it has sometimes been thought that this type of community is abnormal or atypical . |
| 6 | Ophiolimna is included in this subfamily because it has elongated jaws , a similar arrangement of the oral and adoral shields to the other genera in the Ophiotominae . |
| 7 | The central union federation ( the LO ) is also very strong largely because it plays a significant and continuing role in collective bargaining . |
| 8 | No. 28 was noticeable only because it did not have net curtains , just long , dark purple ones which were almost drawn across the front room window . |
| 9 | The wider question is not whether the summary falls apart because the staples are not strong enough , but whether it falls apart because it is not sufficiently objective simply because it has been commissioned , paid for and its contents finally determined by the promoter of the original Bill , now working in co-operation with the Government . |
| 10 | The group as a whole is in the black only because it has income from an American retailing chain Silo and from financial services and property deals in Britain . |
| 11 | Good mainly because it means I can get what I want . ’ |
| 12 | Pakistan claim the ball was changed under Law 5 simply because it had gone soft — but that would not have needed the intervention of the match referee . |
| 13 | Justification by faith , similarly , is important only because it goes to the heart of what it is to be a follower of Christ . |
| 14 | It is the total change in perspective and new semantic outlook which ensures that the subjective nature of the liminal journey can be used as an essential part of the analysis ; for it can produce a dynamic simply because it incorporates aspects of a newly created ideological disjunction , as some classic accounts have shown . |
| 15 | It is important particularly because it draws together both coercion and hegemony in the state . |
| 16 | Though the first state action came in 1882 with the Ancient Monuments Act , this was important chiefly because it acknowledged the interest of the state in the preservation of ancient monuments . |
| 17 | This rather simple notion , that there is one single Mexican culture , problematic principally because it tends to valorize the European over the indigenous and to ignore the diversity , and richness of the latter , but also , conversely , because it excludes or denigrates the more purely European aspects of the culture . |
| 18 | He opposed raising the age of consent above 13 largely because it violated the right of free choice , and he opposed the provisions of the Bill relating to street soliciting . |
| 19 | They are men who rationally weigh up the advantage of conformity to criminal demands or staying on the path of righteousness ; for the most part they choose the former simply because it does not weigh on their conscience and because it seems more likely to secure economic and career advancement within the corporation . |
| 20 | English cricket does not have this capacity for internal strife in the same way , the periodic Yorkshire blood-lettings being of a different order ; but West Indian cricket has grown strong precisely because it has risen above its problems , and on that basis England can not find the same sort of strength since they do not have the same problems to overcome . |
| 21 | Wordsworth 's poem could well be set as in Example 47 : Of course , this kind of writing can be highly poetic , but there is also a danger of falling into aimless meandering , or of not being memorable precisely because it has no metrical background . |
| 22 | Whether humanitarian intervention is legitimate within the terms of the United Nations Charter is controversial precisely because it permits a derogation of State sovereignty on behalf of individual rights . |
| 23 | The Histories is particularly relevant today because it represents the common discursive origin of historiography , sociology , anthropology , ethnography , and prose fiction . |
| 24 | The notion that it is extremely relevant precisely because it does none of these things seems to go unappreciated in official circles . |
| 25 | A good scientific law or theory is falsifiable just because it makes definite claims about the world . |
| 26 | This is all the more annoying when one person 's attack was n't valid anyway because it missed the scoring area , or was otherwise unacceptable . |
| 27 | That 's alright though because it does n't , I 'm not worried tonight because you can lay in tomorrow cos as I say there 's no playschool or gymnastics is there ? |